Social policies and data

OECD research on Child Well-being

Doing Better for Children, the first OECD publication on child well-being indicators, was on 1 September 2009. If you would like to be informed when any updates on the child well-being research project are available, please click "here".

In recent years UNICEF IRC (2007), the OECD (forthcoming) and the European Commission (2008) have all been active in child well-being research. And although advances have been made in terms of the methods used to operationalise child well-being across countries, there remains the need for a clear consensus on which indicators economically advanced countries should use to monitor the well-being of their children.

The purpose of the child well-being consultation is to develop a shared understanding of a set of data that countries should monitor in order to inform policies for children’s well-being. The consultation will be made up of nine sessions, presented over two and a half days, and culminate in recommendations for indicators and an associated research agenda. Expert participants are invited to freely contribute experience, opinion and evidence to each discussion in regard to conceptual and methodological issues of indicating levels of child well-being across countries.

For a full description of the purpose and agenda of the consultation, please see: PDF (revised 22 May)